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How could fabricated hadith have crept into mainstream Islam?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith ka'bah ka'ba kaabah muftis mawdu' mawdoo maudu mawdhu kufr kuffar kaafir kufar kaafirun disbelief imaan eemaan eeman sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat khalifah khalifa khulafa khilafah khilafat caliphate khilafa madina al-madinah madeenah yathribHow could fabricated hadith have crept into Islam? The turmoil of the first decades
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machinesummary, machine-writtenFear of questioning drives the backlash; Mufti Abu Layth says the murder of Uthman, Karbala, the sack of Madinah and the catapulting of the Kaaba all happened within decades, long before hadith were documented, so corruption of reports was possible.
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Mufti Abu Layth says people are reacting to the Jesus question not from attachment to the second coming but from fear that if something they heard since childhood is wrong, other things may be too; he says believers who hold their faith on reason need not feel insecure, and that declaring people kafir is an insecure reaction he likens to a Napoleon syndrome. Answering how such hadith could creep in, he says far more than this happened: within decades of the Prophet, those who hated Islam locked down its capital, the caliph Uthman was murdered in his home and his body left in the street for days while the great companions were present, the Prophet's wives were harassed, his grandson Husayn was martyred, Madinah was sacked and the Kaaba was catapulted. He stresses that he is not raising a sectarian debate but showing that all this took place about six decades after the Prophet, and that Islam then had to live a double lifetime before hadith were documented.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedPeople ask: how is it possible that all these hadith crept into Islam?
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now he said I feel this is from the Israel yet look people when you say that when you say how is this possible that all these hadith crept in in Islam how is it possible that all these hadith crept in look listen to me but for a moment you're gonna have to hold on strap in with your Iman right because some people are gonna get scared they're gonna get scared and I understand that and this is why people are reacting to this thing about Jesus by the way it's not because they're so caught up on the second coming of Jesus
it's because they worried that look I've heard this since I've been a child now if this is wrong then maybe other things in Islam are wrong this is what they scared about and I hear you I feel you what you're saying but believe me we owe it to our self we owe it to the truth to to look through don't be afraid right the we believe in Allah based on reason if you believed in Allah based on reason you would not become insecure you will not worry because you know that Islam can stand the test of reason that the
teaching of Ilan is messenger can stand the test of reason but I tell you what like these people are scared this is why this reaction of trying to declare people go far kaffir out of the Islam this just an insecure reaction this is the Napoleon effect you know the Napoleon syndrome will you just over exert the power to kind of intimidate people so look listen strap yourselves in people ask how is this possible I tell you much more than that as me has happened this is nothing look listen to this when Islam expanded off shortly after the lifetime of the
Prophet it took in many regions of the earth naturally people hated Islam there would be people that would hate Islam there would be people that would carry their own baggage there would be people now check this out if I told you right that is it possible that Islam in all its splendor and might and power the capital of Islam was put on lock that if I said that the capital of Islam was put on lock if I told you that that the head of state earth man of the law and in his
own home was martyred that not just that you could say well you know that's an assassination no the wives of the Prophet were harassed including halfz on other people whilst all the great companions and everybody was still there in Medina the body of us man was left there for days on the street nobody could do anything you would think that sounds a bit dodgy mate but it happened it happened now you would ask Islam being so powerful all the great companions who took on hundreds of
people and fought them with no fear they ruled here yet it happened it happened and I'm not trying to start some kind of different debate but I'm telling you look isn't that shocking whoa that so these people who had an issue with Islam they managed to lock down the capital of Islam they had that much wall to pull off something like that that his body is lying in the streets for days within a few decades the grandson of the Prophet is martyred the grandson Hussein really Aloha now this is not to stir a sectarians
discussion on this but look but it happened can you believe that that would happen it happened shortly after Medina the city of the profits run sacked could this happen it happen the Kaaba is catapulted why am I saying these things the cowbell was catapulted you would think if somebody catapulted the Kaaba all Muslims would go mad no it happened so once all this is happening this is what probably six decades from the lifetime of the Prophet yet listen to my words yet Islam would have to live an
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